Congratulations to Farid Tajaddodianfar for being a recipient of a prestigious ECS Fellowship for 2017-2018.

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May-June AM Lab focus

Professor Moheimani will be presenting a plenary lecture at ACODS 2018, IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems. The conference will be held on February 18-22, 2018 in Hyderabad, India. The talk will be concerned with the LDCN’s work on control system design for atomically precise manufacturing (APM).

LDCN’s recent development of a silicon-on-insulator MEMS-based atomic force microscope has recently been featured in IEEE Spectrum in the article New Paradigm in Microscopy: Atomic Force Microscope on a Chip. The article highlights the group’s latest results from their ongoing research in on-chip atomic force microscopy, which has led to the development of a single-chip MEMS device designed for tapping-mode AFM that features an in-plane scanner and an integrated microcantilever with piezoelectric actuation and sensing. Further details about the on-chip AFM are reported in IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.

Professor Reza Moheimani has been invited to present a plenary talk at ICCAS 2017, the 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems. The conference will be held on October 18-21, 2017 in Jeju, Korea. The plenary talk will focus on LDCN’s ongoing research in on-chip atomic force microscopy, with further details being available here.

At the invitation of LDCN, a number of control systems experts will visit UT Dallas this fall. The first visitor will be Professor Richard Braatz (MIT), who will present a seminar at UT Dallas on September 19.

Other visitors who are scheduled to visit this fall include:

• Professor Santosh Devasia (UW)
• Professor Murti Salapaka (UMN)
• Professor Robert Skelton (TAMU)
• Professor David Trumper (MIT)

LDCN was pleased to invite Professor Graham Goodwin from The University of Newcastle, Australia, as a visitor to UT Dallas during summer. An internationally renowned expert in the field of control systems, Professor Goodwin presented a seminar titled Sampled-Data Models for Control, which was well received by student and faculty members of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Professor Reza Moheimani was one of the featured speakers at the IMA Quantum and Nano Control workshop, held on April 11-15 at the University of Minnesota.

The workshop was designed to bring together scientists, engineers, and mathematicians to identify new challenges regarding the probing and manipulation of matter at the atomic and subatomic scale, and the tools used to address them. Professor Moheimani’s presentation details LDCN’s ongoing research in the field of high-speed on-chip atomic force microscopy, with a recording of the talk being available to view here.

A recent paper authored by Mohammad Maroufi, Anthony Fowler, and Reza Moheimani has been highlighted in the current issue of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. The article “MEMS Nanopositioner for On-Chip Atomic Force Microscopy: A Serial Kinematic Design” has been identified as a paper of particularly high quality, and has been made available for open access for a limited time at the following link.

A postdoctoral research position within LDCN is currently available. The project is a collaborative effort with Zyvex Labs and is aimed at improving the performance of Zyvex Lab’s atomically-precise manufacturing system by developing innovative estimation and control design methods for STM-based lithography.

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